CVE-2023-54236

linux: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/net_failover: fix txq exceeding warning The...

CVE-2023-54236 is fixed in 20 products on 1 platform, first by ALAS2023-2025-1054, released July 1, 2025. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
n/a
important
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0021
11th percentile

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/net_failover: fix txq exceeding warning The failover txq is inited as 16 queues. when a packet is transmitted from the failover device firstly, the failover device will select the queue which is returned from the primary device if the primary device is UP and running. If the primary device txq is bigger than the default 16, it can lead to the following warning: eth0 selects TX queue 18, but real number of TX queues is 16 The warning backtrace is: [ 32.146376] CPU: 18 PID: 9134 Comm: chronyd Tainted: G E 6.2.8-1.el7.centos.x86_64 #1 [ 32.147175] Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.10.2-3.el7_4.1 04/01/2014 [ 32.147730] Call Trace: [ 32.147971] <TASK> [ 32.148183] dump_stack_lvl+0x48/0x70 [ 32.148514] dump_stack+0x10/0x20 [ 32.148820] netdev_core_pick_tx+0xb1/0xe0 [ 32.149180] __dev_queue_xmit+0x529/0xcf0 [ 32.149533] ? __check_object_size.part.0+0x21c/0x2c0 [ 32.149967] ip_finish_output2+0x278/0x560 [ 32.150327] __ip_finish_output+0x1fe/0x2f0 [ 32.150690] ip_finish_output+0x2a/0xd0 [ 32.151032] ip_output+0x7a/0x110 [ 32.151337] ? __pfx_ip_finish_output+0x10/0x10 [ 32.151733] ip_local_out+0x5e/0x70 [ 32.152054] ip_send_skb+0x19/0x50 [ 32.152366] udp_send_skb.isra.0+0x163/0x3a0 [ 32.152736] udp_sendmsg+0xba8/0xec0 [ 32.153060] ? __folio_memcg_unlock+0x25/0x60 [ 32.153445] ? __pfx_ip_generic_getfrag+0x10/0x10 [ 32.153854] ? sock_has_perm+0x85/0xa0 [ 32.154190] inet_sendmsg+0x6d/0x80 [ 32.154508] ? inet_sendmsg+0x6d/0x80 [ 32.154838] sock_sendmsg+0x62/0x70 [ 32.155152] ____sys_sendmsg+0x134/0x290 [ 32.155499] ___sys_sendmsg+0x81/0xc0 [ 32.155828] ? _get_random_bytes.part.0+0x79/0x1a0 [ 32.156240] ? ip4_datagram_release_cb+0x5f/0x1e0 [ 32.156649] ? get_random_u16+0x69/0xf0 [ 32.156989] ? __fget_light+0xcf/0x110 [ 32.157326] __sys_sendmmsg+0xc4/0x210 [ 32.157657] ? __sys_connect+0xb7/0xe0 [ 32.157995] ? __audit_syscall_entry+0xce/0x140 [ 32.158388] ? syscall_trace_enter.isra.0+0x12c/0x1a0 [ 32.158820] __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0x24/0x30 [ 32.159171] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 [ 32.159493] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc Fix that by reducing txq number as the non-existent primary-dev does.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
bpftool · amzn 2023 6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054 Jul 1, 2025
bpftool-debuginfo · amzn 2023 6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054 Jul 1, 2025
kernel · amzn 2023 6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054 Jul 1, 2025
kernel-debuginfo · amzn 2023 6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054 Jul 1, 2025
kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 · amzn 2023 6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054 Jul 1, 2025
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 · amzn 2023 6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054 Jul 1, 2025
kernel-devel · amzn 2023 6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054 Jul 1, 2025
kernel-headers · amzn 2023 6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054 Jul 1, 2025
kernel-libbpf · amzn 2023 6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054 Jul 1, 2025
kernel-libbpf-devel · amzn 2023 6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054 Jul 1, 2025
kernel-libbpf-static · amzn 2023 6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054 Jul 1, 2025
kernel-livepatch-6.1.23-36.46 · amzn 2023 1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054 Jul 1, 2025
kernel-tools · amzn 2023 6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054 Jul 1, 2025
kernel-tools-debuginfo · amzn 2023 6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054 Jul 1, 2025
kernel-tools-devel · amzn 2023 6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054 Jul 1, 2025
linux · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 6.1.25-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54236 Dec 30, 2025
linux · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 6.1.25-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54236 Dec 30, 2025
linux · Debian 14 6.1.25-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54236 Dec 30, 2025
perf · amzn 2023 6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054 Jul 1, 2025
perf-debuginfo · amzn 2023 6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054 Jul 1, 2025
python3-perf · amzn 2023 6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054 Jul 1, 2025
python3-perf-debuginfo · amzn 2023 6.1.23-36.46.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1054 Jul 1, 2025

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